Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary PowersDivision (I) Individual Volition
Section V. Results of Voluntary Action
735. Adversity.
pressure of the times, iron age, evil day, time out of joint; hard -, bad -, sad- times; rainy day, cloud, dark cloud, gathering clouds, ill wind; affliction (painfulness) [See Painfulness]; bitter -pill, – draft (or draught), – cup; care.
TROUBLE, hardship, curse, blight, blast, load, pressure, humiliation.
MISFORTUNE, misventure [archaic], mishap, mischance, misadventure, disaster, calamity, catastrophe; accident, casualty, cross, blow, trial, sorrow, visitation, infliction, reverse, check, contretemps [F.], pinch, rub; backset, comedown, setback.
DOWNFALL, fall; losing game; falling &c. v.; ruination, ruinousness, undoing; extremity; ruin (destruction) [See Destruction].
COME TO GRIEF, go downhill, go to rack and ruin (destruction) [See Destruction], go to the dogs [colloq.]; fall, – from one’s high estate; decay, sink, decline, go down in the world; have seen better days; bring down one’s gray hairs with sorrow to the grave; be all over with, be all up with [colloq.]; bring a wasp’s (or hornet’s) nest about one’s ears.
ILL-FATED, ill-starred, ill-omened; planet-struck, devoted, doomed; inauspicious, unauspicious [rare], ominous, sinister, unpropitious; unfavorable; born -under an evil star, – with a wooden ladle in one’s mouth.
ADVERSE, untoward; disastrous, calamitous, ruinous, dire, deplorable.
- One’s star is on the wane.
- One’s luck turns, one’s luck fails.
- The game is up, one’s doom is sealed, the ground crumbles under one’s feet, sic transit gloria mundi, tant va la cruche à l’eau qu’ à la fin elle se casse.
- Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy.—Romeo and Juliet
- Amici probantur rebus adversis.
- Bien vengas mal si vienes solo.
- [Greek].—Periander
- Gaudet tentamine virtus.
- Curœ leves loquuntur ingentes stupent.
- Res est sacra miser.—Ovid
- Sempre il mal non vien per nuocere.
- Væ victis.—Livy
- Sweet are the uses of adversity.—As You Like It
- The man who complains of the crumpled rose leaf very often has his flesh full of thorns.—Chesterton
- In the shadow of a great affliction.—Whittier